Jahin Khan

In the first inter-Korean summit to have taken place since 2007, North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in signed a historic joint declaration on Friday, vowing to formally end the 1950s Korean War and pursue “complete denuclearisation” of the region. In this agreement, the leaders pledged to sign […]

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In a series of videos and documents sent to Al Jazeera, almost two dozen displaced Yemeni civilians report that they were rounded up, beaten, and then forcefully driven from the city of Aden back to active front lines in Northern Taiz and Sanaa by militias affiliated with the United Arab Emirates. Others report […]

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Tensions are escalating in Iran as anti-government protests erupt across different cities over the country’s economic policies, making them the largest protests the Iranian government has faced in nearly a decade. Protests began on Thursday in the second-largest city of Masshad, with Iranians expressing anger against rising prices, unemployment, and […]

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On Wednesday, The Filipino Congress approved President Duterte‘s appeal to extend martial law in the country’s southern region, Mindanao, until the end of 2018 in order to “totally eradicate” ISIL supporters and communist fighters. Duterte appealed for the extension on Monday in a letter to legislators, saying that in order to contain an ongoing […]

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Today, according to the United Nations, it is estimated that 200 million girls and women have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). Alarming as it is, the rate at which the procedure is occurring only continues to grow as our global population grows as well. Although the precise origin of […]

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Kenya’s opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has declared that his National Super Alliance (NASA) opposition coalition will not accept the result of last week’s controversial presidential re-election, and has vowed to begin a political campaign to “restore democracy in the country.” This declaration came on Tuesday, a day after President Uhuru Kenyatta […]

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Catalan protesters in Barcelona are calling for the release of two men they consider leaders and the first “political prisoners” in their road to independence, as the central government in Madrid threatens to enact Article 155. Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sanchez, members of Omnium cultural and the National Catalan Assembly […]

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In the latest in a series of moves that would help it gain an advantage ahead of next year’s elections, the Cambodian government took the first legal steps seeking to dissolve its main opposition, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) this Friday. According to spokesman Khieu Sopheak, the interior ministry has […]

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Pressure is being placed on the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) as Baghdad imposes an international flight embargo, Ankara threatens restrictions on oil trading, and Iraq, Iran, and Turkey hold border military drills following Monday’s Kurdish independence referendum. Electoral officials on Wednesday told a news conference in Erbil, the capital of […]

On Saturday, following heightened rhetoric between Washington and Pyongyang, U.S. bombers escorted by fighter jets made a provocative flight close to the North Korean east coast in what U.S. officials say is a display of military strength. The Pentagon elaborated saying that Saturday’s operation showed the seriousness with which Washington took Pyongyang’s “reckless […]